Nearly two dozen gathered outside a Yankee merchandise shop on the Upper East Side yesterday, not to complete their holiday shopping but to blast the team’s apparent plan to eliminate cheap tickets to its games.

Management plans to announce next week a deal with Ticketmaster that will impose minimum prices for tickets — something that ticket reseller StubHub has refused to implement.

The fans chanted, “Hands off our tickets,” as City Councilwoman Letitia James reminded the team that taxpayer dollars subsidized the new Yankee Stadium and called on it to drop the plan.

With attendance at Yankee games down 6 percent over the last two seasons, the team seems intent on cutting ties with StubHub, where tickets could sometimes be scarfed up for just a few bucks.